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“Because the most difficult part about making something, also the best,



Is existing in the middle,

Sustaining an act of radical imagination…”

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Hearts, Minds, & Machines

Curious about AI? So were we. Here’s a taste of our study on AI perceptions, a coming schism in America, and the future of AI research tools.

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Our Leaders

  • John Baxa

    Why the median age for South Park has always been 22

    How ideas can be said without words

    Gamification of everyday life and culture

  • Agnish Chakravarti

    Why do people actually prefer Hunts to Heinz

    Why starting an insights project without a strategic framework is a bad idea

    Tween and teen insights - based on a deep ethnography with an N=2

  • Viet Do

    Why startups should invest more in upfront product research

    Conducting overnight, political polling for fortune 100 companies

    The benefits of working from the top of a ski mountain

  • Susanna Hamilton

    Testing prototypes for a new motor oil concept at a Jiffy Lube in Queens 

    Conducting qual-at-scale research for creative concept testing

  • Katelin Jones

    Going door-to-door in Utqiagvik, Alaska for the Native Village of Barrow’s tribal Census

    Minimizing cultural bias and language barriers in survey design

  • Kristen Nozell Bornstein

    AI, AR, VR and other emerging technologies

    How tech products impact daily life—and how daily life can inform tech products

    The dos and don'ts of brand and product naming

  • Gabe Plener

    People, their idiosyncrasies, and how flawed we are as decision makers

    Researching software piracy in Russia

    How comedy and insights are deeply connected

  • Chris Varner

    Conducting global segmentations for the biggest companies in the world

    Defining and measuring the way cloud providers measure value realization

    What defines a deviled egg

  • We came together to deliver better strategies - driven by shared values in actionability, empathy, & levity

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